Biography
David Wainberg, founder of PrivacyWise, knows how privacy gets done. During more than a decade of experience inside dynamic, innovative tech organizations, David has built expertise and savvy in following the data, zeroing in on privacy issues, and working elbow-to-elbow with product and engineering teams to design effective privacy-by-design solutions.
PrivacyWise is a boutique consulting firm, specialized in providing strategic advice on data protection, and in particular helping technology companies to implement Privacy by Design. PrivacyWise focuses on helping both sides of the tech-legal equation, by helping to translate back and forth -- acting as middleware -- between privacy legal teams and product and engineering teams.
Prior to starting his own firm, David was Chief Privacy Counsel for The Trade Desk, where he started the in-house privacy program from scratch. This was the second time David had the experience of instantiating a privacy program; he also founded the in-house privacy program at AppNexus (now Xandr).
Before Trade Desk, David was Senior Privacy Counsel at Apple, providing privacy support to a broad range of Apple services and software.
David holds a JD, CIPP/US and CIPP/E certifications, and is a certified IBM Data Science Professional.